Unsurprisingly, it only took a few hours for a handful of white folks to make the push for #GrowingUpWhite, a derivative hashtag meant to tap into the nostalgic fun as well. While some of the tweets were lighthearted takes on growing up in white households, other used the hashtag as a chance to take potshots at black people.

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Rather than just calling out people using #GrowingUpWhite for being unoriginal and occasionally racist, Black Twitter took control of the hashtag and turned it into what can only be described as a giant, open-handed clapback.